42 AUTUMNAL LEAVES. 



a prospect is opened up of garden and meadow 

 enclosures with trees beyond whose greenery 

 prettily contrasts with the roofs and walls of 

 more cottages which peep out from their midst. 



Turning from our inn to the right, in our first 

 ramble from this forest village, and then again 

 to the right a few yards down the ' street,' we 

 find ourselves in an elm-and-oak bordered road. 

 Gently ascending, the road crosses the railway 

 whose lines have * opened up ' this woodland 

 district to the world. Just beyond, if we turn 

 round and look towards the north-east, we get 

 a distant view of rolling forest stretching away 

 over uplands, with here and there an open lawn 

 contrasting with the darker hues of the green- 

 wood. The road we are following is soon lost to 

 the pedestrian at the point where it enters a 

 private park guarded by the gilded iron-work 

 of its lodge gate. But close by the gate, and 

 standing in the public road, is an enormous Elm 

 crowning a grassy mound. Passing to the right, 

 under the spreading boughs of this noble tree, 

 we come upon another stately Elm standing out 

 from a half-circle of Oaks and Elms growing 



